US Secretary of State John Kerry sought on Tuesday to reassure the rulers of Tajikistan and Turkmenistan that Washington remained committed to Central Asia’s security, even though it is withdrawing troops from neighboring Afghanistan. Both countries fear the spread of Islamist militancy, and US officials worry that government crackdowns...

The Ministry of Tourism has suspended Egypt’s promotional campaign indefinitely in six major countries that export tourists to the country, until investigations into the Russian plane crash incident are completed. Sources at the ministry said Russia, Germany, Italy, Poland, Ukraine, and France, are the countries that export the most...

IntroductionOn October 8, the Nobel Committee announced that the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature was being awarded to Svetlana Alexievich, a writer and journalist whose body of work is unique both in scope and in genre. The bare facts of Alexievich’s biography reflect the nature of her greater subject: the memory, aspirations, tragedy, and...

The Ministry of Tourism has suspended Egypt’s promotional campaign indefinitely in six major countries that export tourists to the country, until investigations into the Russian plane crash incident are completed. Sources at the ministry said Russia, Germany, Italy, Poland, Ukraine, and France, are the countries that export the most...

Russian police searched the offices of a Tatar TV channel in Crimea early Monday as well as homes of its employees, its deputy director told AFP, the latest raid against the once popular network which was forced to go off air in April …read more Source: The Daily...

By Lin Noueihed The Russian plane that crashed in Egypt was not struck from the outside and the pilot did not make a distress call before it disappeared from radar, a source in the committee analysing the flight recorders said on Monday. The source declined to give more details but based his comments on the preliminary examination of the black...